Perhaps related toEstonian-v, e.g.,elav(“lively”) fromelama(“to live”),Finnishelävä.
-ф• (-f)
- pastpassiveparticiple suffix
- V. I. Ščankina (2011)Russko-mokšansko-erzjanskij slovarʹ [Russian-Moksha-Erzya Dictionary], Saransk,→ISBN
тонафнеф- tonafne f
- educated
From Proto-Nivkh *-v, with regular word-final devoicing of a voiced fricative.
-ф (-f)
- Forms nouns denotingplaces from verbs
- едь(jed̦) + -ф(-f) → еф(jef)